Resource Library

Precious Minds has a large book, magazine, and video library covering many topics that we would love to share with you. Please feel free to browse through our books and borrow some. We simply ask that you call before dropping by.

Materials are available on the following subjects:

ADD/ADHD	General
Advocacy	Health and Nutrition
Anxiety	Hearing Disabilities
Asperger's	Learning Disabilities
Autism Spectrum	Life Skills
Bipolar Disease	Medication
Books for Struggling Readers	OCD
Child Development	Parenting
Children's Books	Physical Disabilities
Communication and Speech	Sensory Disorders
Developmental Disabilities	Social Skills
Down Syndrome	Tourette's Syndrome
Education	Transitions
Epilepsy	Visual Disabilities
Family

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ADD/ADHD

ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
Judith Kolberg and Dr. Kathleen Nadeau
Exclusively addressing the special organizational needs and dilemmas of adults with ADD, this book is full of innovative tips, tools and strategies specifically geared to the workings of the ADD brain - a must-read. Co-authored by a professional organizer specializing in helping people with ADD, and a psychologist and ADD expert.

ADDitude Magazine
A monthly magazine that covers every aspect of raising a child with ADD/LD

ADHD - A Complete and Authoritative Guide
Michael Reiff
Provides accurate and current info on diagnosis, behaviour therapy, academics, medication, unproven treatments and more

ADHD: The Great Misdiagnosis, Revised Edition
Julian Stuart Haber, M.D.
This book will enlighten parents and educators alike about what Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder clearly is and what it is not, building on the reality that the ADHD label has been misused and overused on children with different issues. The updated edition discusses multiple treatment options for ADHD and includes a revised chapter on medication, incorporating new information and a thorough review of side effects and older medications. It also discusses unique problems for teenagers with ADHD, including relationships, driving, and attitudes.

All About Attention Deficit Disorder
Thomas Phelan
This book offers the information, tools and emotional support you need for children and adults with ADD.

Children with Starving Brains: A medical treatment guide for autism spectrum disorder
Jaquelyn McCandles, MD
Children with Starving Brains is a message of hope in the midst of a worldwide epidemic of autism, ADD and ADHD. This is the first book written by an experienced clinician that gives a step-by-step treatment guide for parents and doctors based on the understanding that ASD is a complex biomedical illness resulting in significant brain malnutrition.

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with ADD from childhood through adulthood
Edward Halloway MD and John Ratey MD
Both authors are psychiatrists who themselves have ADD. In the book they use many case studies to make their points. A lot of the examples however deal with adults. This may be good to look at if your child has been diagnosed as there is a genetic link with ADD and may help you understand yourself or another adult in your life who experiences these characteristics.

Give your ADD Teen a Chance
Lynn Weiss
Parenting ADD teens is not easy. In this book the author helps you distinguish which issues are normal and which are related to ADD. She gives practical help on discipline, guidance and responsibility.

Help for the Hyperactive Child
Sydney Walker III, M.D
Using case studies to illustrate his points, Dr. Walker explains the many often obscure causes for the hyperactive child

Keys to Parenting a Child with ADD
Barry E. McNamara
In this book you will learn to work with your child's school, effectively manage your child's behaviour and be your child's advocate

Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Asperger's, Tourette's, Bipolar and More!
Martin Kutscher MD
A well laid out book that gives very practical information for those families who have or suspect they have a child with a syndrome mix.

Late, Lost, and Unprepared
Joyce Cooper-Kahn, Ph.D. and Laurie Dietzel, Ph.D.
A parent's guide to help manage disorganized children who have difficulty with planning and organization, self-monitoring, impulse control, working memory and initiating tasks. Building short-term strategies as well as ways to gain skills needed for long-term, life-long success is the focus written with a friendly approach.

Lost at School
Ross W. Greene
This book provides tools to identify unsolved problems and lagging skills underlying challenging behaviour; explicit guidance and examples on to radically improve interactions; dialogues,Q&As; and finally practical guidance for successful collaboration among teachers, parents, administrators and kids. Dr. Greene is the author of The Explosive Child.

Maybe You Know My Kid: A Parent's Guide to ADD
Mary Fowler
This book was written to help parents find the help that they need to face the challenges presented by ADD

Quirky Kids
Perri Klass M.D. & Eileen Costello M.D.
Subtitle: Understanding and helping your child who doesn't fit in - when to worry and when not to worry. A highly recommended book to help parents provide the best care for their children as medical terms are illuminated, therapy options, coping strategies and medications are discussed, as well as being full of facts, wisdom and practical advice.

Positively ADD
C.Corman & E Hallowell
This is a book about real success stories of people who have ADD. Each of those in the book have seen their ADD as a gift - maybe a hard gift to unwrap but a gift just the same. The professions are varied from professional athlete, chef, reporter, police officer and CEO.

Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child
Jeffery Freed, M.A.T and Laurie Parsons
The specific learning techniques arm parents with real tools to work at learning problems and open the door to greater understanding.

Ritalin is not the Answer
David Stein
A clinical psychologist gives a healthy drug-free alternative to Ritalin using behavioural program.

Scattered - How attention deficit originates and what you can do about it
Gabor Mate
How to cope at home and in classroom. From skills to building self esteem from childhood to adulthood.

Seven Steps to Homework Success
Sydney Zentall & Sam Goldstein
A very practical guide to helping all children with homework - with specific ideas for children with LD or ADHD. Homework is required of all children - this book will help our kids work smarter not longer thus taking some of the stress out of the homework.

Smart but Scattered
Peg Dawson, EdD., and Richard Guare, PhD.
This book is recommended as essential reading by parents, schools and other authors, in dealing with the struggles children have with everyday tasks and different emotions. Using personal experiences from the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders, you will find the book comprehensive, accessible and hopeful, using practical, detailed advice.

Take Control of ADHD: The Ultimate Guide for Teens with ADHD
Ruth Spodak, Ph. D. and Kenneth Stefano, Psy. D.
An easy-to-read book for teens, helping them understand the nature and impact of their diagnosis, to take control of the disorder and find success in school and in life, through coping strategies and technology tools that will improve their focus and develop a self-advocacy plan they can use immediately.

Taking A.D.D to School
Eileen Weiner
A children's book for children with ADD and for those around them to understand how this effects their daily life.

Teaching the Tiger: A handbook for teaching students with ADHD, Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Marilyn Dornbush, Sheryl Pruitt
In this 10th edition the authors give in depth and excellent information beginning with how each disorder presents itself to classroom modifications to academic interventions to understanding social skills. A must read for teachers and parents alike.

Teenagers with ADD
Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M.S
This book was written for parents and professionals about adolescents with ADD and focuses on the main problem areas of teenagers today

The ADD & ADHD Answer Book
Susan Ashley
This book answers the top 275 questions parents ask about medication, cure, homework, diagnosis and includes a questionnaire and checklist that help you get the most out of your child's evaluation.

The Gift of Learning
Ron Davis
In this book Ron Davis applies his proven techniques to the four most common learning disabilities beyond dyslexia - ADD, ADHD, math disability, and handwriting problems.

The Hyperactive Child and the Disabled Child
Paul H. Wender, M.D
This edition includes information about basic characteristics of hyperactive children, how to avoid misunderstanding the symptoms and what causes hyperactivity

The Hyperactive Child, Adolescent, and Adult: ADD through the Lifespan
Paul H. Wender, M.D
This book talk about the causes, affects and treatments that come along with ADD

The Hyperactive Child
Dr. Alan Brown
A 10 min video, though a little dated, still has information on signs and symptoms of ADHD and the issues around the diagnosis

The IQ Answer: Maximizing your child's potential
Dr.Frank Lawlis
Dr. Lawlis the author of The ADD Answer book, in this book gives you the tools to reclaim your central role in healing your child. He covers right thinking to detoxifying the brain to building intellectual brainpower through breathing.

The Misunderstood Child
Larry Silver, MD
This a revised and updated version of a book that has been around for more than 20 years. It is still the go-to reference for families who have children with learning disabilities. The book addresses specific LDs, the genetics of LD and also covers ADD. A great resource for parents.

The Survival Guide for Kids with ADD or ADHD
John F. Taylor
This book is meant for children to read alongside a caring adult to help understand the information and carry out the activities. A very helpful and fun resource.

Understanding Girls with ADHD
Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen Littman, Patricia Quinn
A great resource for families and professionals to help recognize and help girls with AD/HD. This book encompasses girls from preschool through to college age. I talks to the fact that ADD in girls is often not detected in the early years and talks of the effect that puberty has on symptoms. Educational and treatment needs are discussed in a practical, solution oriented fashion.

What do you mean I have ADD?
Kathleen M. Dwyer
This book successfully shows the scope of ADD and explains many behavioral and educational problem strategies

When your child has...ADD/ADHD
Rebecca Rutledge & Vincent Iannelli
This is a small but invaluable book for the early diagnosed and later as a resource. You will learn about the difference between ADDand ADHD, helping your child focus with and without medication and how to deal with emotional struggles and discipline.

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Advocacy

A Way with Words: Guidelines and appropriate terminology for portrayal of persons with disabilities
Human Resources Development Canada
Careful presentation of information about persons with disabilities can help overcome negative attitudes and shape positive ones.

Advocating for Inclusive Education: How parents and local organizations can bring about change at the grassroots level
Ontario Association for Community Living
This book promotes the end to exclusion of students with intellectual disabilities and gives information on how to make a positive environment

All Ways Welcome
Ontario Tourism Board
A video produced for tourism industry that very humorously gets the point across that all people are to be valued. It deals with many different disabilities and common mistakes that individuals make when relating to them.

Chances and Choices: Making integration work
Deborah Fullwood
This book provides generous insight into the process of moving forward to achieve both equity and excellence for all people labeled disabled

Helping You Helps Me
Canadian Council of Social Development
Self Help is a way to deal with problems that everyone faces at one point or another in their lives

How to Get Services
Being Assertive Co-Ordinating Council for Handicapped Children
A very practical manual on determining your style and then concrete ways to become more assertive (not aggressive) to help you obtain all that your child needs to reach his/her potential.

How to Organize an Effective Parent/ Advocacy Group and More Bureaucracies
Published by Coordinating Council for Handicapped Children
This book is dedicated to parents of all handicapped children.

Keys to Parenting a Child with ADD
Barry E. McNamara
In this book you will learn to work with your child's school, effectively manage your child's behaviour and be your child's advocate

Speak for Yourself
Special Services at the University of Toronto
Provides the reader a better understanding of the experience of students with disabilities.

The ABC's of the School System
Catherine Rooney
A- advocate for your Child, B- Be knowledgeable of your rights, C- Communicate well with school personnel

Your Struggling Child
Robert Newby Ph.D
This is a guide to diagnosing, understanding & advocating for your child with learning, behaviour or emotional problems. This book is rich with science based information and sensible recommendations.

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Anxiety

Helping your child overcome separation anxiety or school refusal
Andrew Eisen and Linda Engler
This book is written specifically for parents and offers tools to identify your child’s unique needs and build strategies that are effective to enable your child to cope in all situations.

Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step-By-Step Guide for Parents
Ronald M. Rapee, Ph.D
This book provides parents with a step-by-step guide for assisting their children in overcoming worries, fears and anxieties. The strategies described are well-established ones, backed by considerable scientific support.

Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child
Katharina Manassis, M.D, F.R.C.PCO
This book answers why some children are anxious and how their anxieties develop.

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Asperger's

Atypical: Life with Asperger's in 20 1/3 Chapters
Jesse A. Saperstein
This book is the memoir of Jesse Saperstein, diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at age 14, and details the many challenges of living with the condition through the eyes of his unique and honest perspective. You will find valuable insight into challenges such as: bullying and rejection, coping with obsessions, dating and sex, and finding purpose in life.

Developing Talents - Careers for Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome and High Functioning Autism
Temple Grandin & Kate Duffy
An overall informative resource to start gathering information for learning to find jobs and careers. Although it's USA information, a whole chapter is dedicated for "best Jobs for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum".

Freaks, Geeks & Asperger Syndrome
Luke Jackson
This book was written by a thirteen year old about his life with Asperger's. He gives guidance on bullying, friendships, problems at school and many other topics. A great book for parents to read first and then for their child to read and then have discussion around the topics covered in the book.

How to Find Work that Works for People with Asperger Syndrome
Gail Hawkins
A great tool to guide you through the process of finding employment from teaching strategies for personal skill enhancement to career planning, interview, cover letter, resumes, job search and ultimately keeping the job. Very helpful teaching strategies that can be applied to not only Aspergers Syndrome but other disabilities as well.

Look Me in the Eye
John Elder Robison
This autobiography of a man who was not diagnosed till he was 40 with Asperger syndrome is a darkly funny memoir of his life from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own.

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Autism Spectrum

10001 Tips for the Parents of Autistic Girls
Tony Lyons
Written by the parent of a daughter with Autism, the book offers advice from personal experience and different contributors on everything you need to know about diagnosis, doctors, schools, taxes, vacations, babysitters, treatment, food and more.

"You're going to love this kid!": Teaching students with autism in the inclusive classroom
Paula Kluth
This is a practical guide to understanding students with autism and including them fully in the classroom. It combines relevant research along with specific ideas learned in the classroom.

A Chance to Be Me
Autism Society Ontario
This is a 22 minute video( for grades 6 and up) includes 3 teenagers with varying degrees of ASD

A Cup of Comfort for Parents of Children with Autism
Colleen Sell
A collection of inspiring true stories that relates the strength, love, and devotion that families draw on daily. Heart-warming tales that will connect these devoted and courageous parents while giving light to your blessing - your child.

A Treasure Chest of Behavioral Strategies for Individuals with Autism
Beth Fouse, Ph.D.
This book provides a resource manual that applies theory and best practices in behavior management to individuals with autism

A Work in Progress: Behaviour Management
Ron Leaf & John McEachin
A great collection of ideas and programs for building skills as well as strategies for dealing with challenged behaviours. Easy to read and follow directions to help families and professionals aid children with autism.

Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum
Chantal Sicile-Kira
This practical guide offers strategies for helping their children, whatever their ability level, through the physical and emotional changes of the teenage years and preparing them for adulthood.

Asperger Syndrome and Adolescence
Teresa Bolick
Helping teens and preteens get ready for the real world - this book is a wonderful resource. Explaining the challenges and offering practical advice to parents, educators and therapists who interact with this age group of young people who have AS.

Asperger's and Girls
Tony Attwood
This book is written for kids but has valuable info for parents too. It gives info on what LD is as ell as practical help like what to do when kids tease you.

Autism - Now What? The Primer for Parents
Abby & Sibley Collins
A must for parents & extended family, educators and anyone who doesn't get it'. It gives a solid understanding of autism in one quick and easy reference.

Autism Life Skills
Chantal Sicile-Kira
From communication and safety to self esteem and more - 10 essential abilities every child needs and deserves to learn. Each section is filled with practical solutions - highlighted and easy to find.

Autism Newslink
Ontario Autism
A magazine with book reviews and current information on autism

Autism Treatment Guide 3rd edition 2003
Elizabeth King Gerlach
This 3rd edition brings together some of the newest findings in treatments for autism. It outlines basic facts, research information and effective treatment options.

Behavioral Intervention for Young Children with Autism
Catherine Maurice & G. Green, S. Luce
This book looks at how to choose an effective method of treating young children with autism, how to teach, who should teach, organizing and funding programs and then looks at entering the school system. It was written in 1996 from a US standpoint but still has valuable information.

Between their World and Ours
Karen Zelan
This book was written based on true stories about children with autism

Biological Treatments for Autism and PDD
William Shaw Ph. D.
A user-friendly book addressing the practical, here-and-now biomedical treatments that can result in dramatic improvements in many cases of autism. Six chapters dealing with infections, antibiotics, alternative treatments, gastrointestinal tract problems, yeasts and fungi, immune deficiency, and digestive system abnormalities. An additional five chapters by various doctors dealing with specifics.

Children Diagnosed with Autism: What is expected and where to get help
The Autism Society of Canada

Children with Starving Brains: A medical treatment guide for autism spectrum disorder
Jaquelyn McCandles, MD
Children with Starving Brains is a message of hope in the midst of a worldwide epidemic of autism, ADD and ADHD. This is the first book written by an experienced clinician that gives a step-by-step treatment guide for parents and doctors based on the understanding that ASD is a complex biomedical illness resulting in significant brain malnutrition.

Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome - Integrating Multiple Perspectives
Editor: Kevin P Stoddart
This textbook covers clinical & service perspectives, disciplined based perspectives, theoretical and research perspectives and finally parent and personal perspectives.

Confronting Autism – the aurora on the dark side of Venus
Victorian Beck
This book offers a practical guide to hope, acknowledgement and empowerment.

Could it be Autism?
Nancy Wiseman
Easy-to-use checklist for milestones beginning at 4 months, early detection and intervention strategies for developmental delays and getting the best possible developmental outcome for your child.

Dancing with Max
Emily Colson
A true story of a single mother who persevered and triumphed over life's toughest obstacles in the raising of Max, her nineteen year old autistic son, who struggles to speak. Max becomes the tour guide, shining light on the whole family. Prologue and epilogue by Max's grandfather, Chuck Colson.

Daniel isn't talking (novel)
Marti Leimach
Reviewers have called this book riveting, engrossing and infused with love and hope. It is set in England. A family of four find that their son Daniel has autism. It is the story of their fight for Daniel's future and shows the strain that that puts on their marriage and their extended family.

Developing Leisure Time Skills for Persons with Autism
Phyllis Coyn, Colleen Nyberg, Mary Lou Vandenburg
This is a very practical binder with many pages suitable for copying for use at home or school or elsewhere. Its intent is to provide a comprehensive, structured approach to developing leisure skills and interests.

DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY: Social Communication Intervention for Children with Autism
Kathleen Ann Quill

Drawing Autism
Jill Mullin
A book that features artists who are on the autism spectrum. It not only displays their artwork but gives a glimpse into their lives and why they draw/paint. There is a forward by Temple Grandin.

Effective Educational Practices for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders – a resource guide
Queen’s printer for Ontario
This guide gives practical information about both how to understand the disorder and how children learn and how to teach them effectively. There is also a section on communication and behaviour.

Experiencing Autism (video)
Autism Society Ontario
In this video studentswill gain a real appreciation of what it may be like to live with autism through 5 simulation activities. This flexible tool will bring insight into a disorder that few can comprehend or understand.

Facing Autism, giving parents reasons for hope and guidance for help
Lynn Hamilton
Discover the steps you can take today to begin the fight for your child's future.

Freaks, Geeks & Asperger Syndrome
Luke Jackson
This book was written by a thirteen year old about his life with Aspergers. He gives guidance on bullying, friendships, problems at school and many other topics. A great book for parents to read first and then for their child to read and then have discussion around the topics covered in the book.

Helping Children with Autism Learn
Bryna Siegel, Ph.D
This book is a guide to autistic learning disabilities and is for both parents and professionals. It offers help for finding the right method for a child's learning style. In the book the author covers daily living skills, academic skills, the TEACCH curriculum and IEPs.

Helping Students with Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Durham District School Board
We developed this package because educational assistants need tools quickly after being assigned to work with a child identified with Pervasive Developmental disorders.

The Horse Boy: A Father’s Quest to Heal His Son
Rupert Isaacson
This is the inspiring story of a young boy, Rowan, diagnosed with autism whose father, Rupert, an expert horseman, found that his son had a connection with the family horse Betsy. From there, they decide to travel halfway around the world by horseback to meet the traditional healers of Outer Mongolia, creating an amazing adventure of hope, joy and learning.

Incorporating Social Goals in the Classroom: A guide for teachers and parents of children with high-functioning autism and asperger syndrome
Rebecca A. Moyes
The author defines Asperger and high functioning autism and then goes on to provide practical, hands-on strategies to teach social skills. She talks about - taking turns, understanding idioms, understanding voice and body language.

Inspiring Journeys of Son-Rise Program
Autism Treatment Center of America
The Son-Rise Program teaches a specific and comprehensive system of treatment and education for families to help their children with autism improve in all areas - learning , development, communication and skill acquisition. This includes BBC documentary I want my little Boy Back

Interview of Temple Grandin on the Vicky Gabereau Show

Let me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph over Autism
Catherine Maurice
How one family tried many miracle cures to no avail and then finally using behavioural therapy were able to save their little girl.

Living with ASD: Adolescence and Beyond
Autism Ontario
Helping people with autism spectrum navigate to and through adulthood, It covers getting a diagnosis in adulthood, dual diagnosis, epilepsy, person-centred planning living options and much more.

Making Visual Supports Work in the Home and the Community, strategies for individuals with autism and asperger syndrome
Jennifer Savner and Brenda Smith Myles
This book has so many practical ideas to help in daily living.

More Than Words
Fern Sussman
Helping parents promote communication and social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. A step-by-step guide that is easy to use and has practical ideas.

Navigating the Special Education System in Ontario
The Autism Society of Ontario
Mission-to ensure that each individual with ASD is provided the means to achieve quality of life as a respected member of society

Not Even Wrong
Paul Collins
This book picks up from where the book Sixpence House left off with the author bringing a blend of personal observation and obscure stories from history to bear on his son's autism.

Parenting Your Complex Child
Peggy Lou Morgan
The author stresses that know one knows a child better than a parent. She offers a powerful system for marshalling information about your child into a cohesive plan that guarantees professional attention and action.

Playing, Laughing and Learning with Children on the Autism Spectrum: Practical resource of play ideas for parents and caregivers
Julia Moor
This book is not just a collection of ideas but about how best to help your child. They feel dismay and shut out and are often also having to grapple with language and behaviour problems.

Raising Blaze
Debra Ginsberg
The author writes with blistering honesty and irrepressible humour her personal story of raising her son Blaze and all that entailed.

Relationship Development Intervention with Young Children: Social and Emotional Development Activities for Asperger Syndrome, Autism, PDD and NLD.
Steven E. Gutstein & Rachelle K. Sheely
This book is designed for children between two and eight years of age, enabling friendships to develop using enjoyable activities to teach skills like social referencing, regulating behaviour, conversational reciprocity and synchronized actions. Easy implementation for parents & schools.

Russell is Extra Special
Charles Amenta M.D.
Explaining autism to children can be difficult . This book helps children and adults understand. The author has a child with ASD.

Sibling Stories - Reflections on Life with a brother or sister with autism.
L Feiges & MJ Weiss
This book will benefit both parents and siblings alike. It uses first hand accounts to deal with very real situations and gives suggestions for dealing with such situations.

Socially Curious and Curiously Social
Michelle Garcia Winner & Pamela Cooke
This book is a social thinking guide book for bright teens and young adults with social deficits. It is written to teens/young adults and uses anime to illustrates its points. The authors explain that there is a difference between social thinking and actions. An excellent practical book to be read by parents and teachers as well as the young people it is intended for.

Soon Will Come the Light
Thomas McKean
The author offers a fascinating insight into the world of autism. Thomas was diagnosed late in his teens and is able to communicate what it is like to live behind the wall'.

Souls Beneath and Beyond Autism
Balsamo and Rosenbloom
A book filled with words to encourage, inspire and photographs that capture the joy and beauty of these very special children and their families.

Special Diets For Special Kids Two
Lisa Lewis, Ph.D.
More great tasting recipes and tips for implementing special diets to aid in the treatment of autism and related developmental disorders

Teaching Children with Autism: Strategies to Enhance Communication and Socialization
Kathleen Ann Quill
This valuable book describes teaching strategies as instructional adaptations, which promote communication and socialization in children with Autism. These strategies capitalize on the individual strengths and learning styles of the autistic child.

Teaching Developmentally Disabled Children – The ME Book
O.Ivar Lovaas
This book is intended for parents and teachers of children and youth but can be used for adults as well who have a developmental disability.

Temple Grandin
the award winning movie made for HBO
This movie chronicles the life of well known Temple Grandin from her early diagnosis of autism, her formative years right through to her emergence as a woman who is innately sensitive to animal behaviour which has guided her career.

The Autism Mom's Survival Guide
Susan Senator
In raising a child with autism it is easy for parents to lose themselves and for the overall quality of life to plummet. In this book the author weaves knowledge from parents, researchers and professionals to offer guidance and encouragement on finding balance and fulfillment.

The Autism Sourcebook
Karen Siff Exkorn
This is a comprehensive, balance and compassionate guide to everything you need to know about diagnosis, treatment, coping and healing.

The Autism Trail Guide: Postcards from the Road Less Travelled
Ellen Notbohm
Ellen Notbohm's approach to autism is child-centered, helping parents take on everyday challenges while celebrating what their children bring to their world. She offers advice on issues such as math homework, video games, tricky behaviour, as well as trusting parental instincts, taking risks, hanging on - and letting go.

The Boy Who Loved Windows
Patricia Stacey
This is a parent's memoir that traces their journey with their son Walker from birth through diagnosis and treatment for autism.

The Child with Special Needs
Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. and Serena Wieder, Ph. D. with Robin Simons
Addressing the discovery of each child's unique strengths, developmental capacities and challenges, then on to encouraging emotional and intellectual growth, and then focusing on family, therapy and school, this book covers many topics of interest for the healthy development of your child.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Mark Haddon (novel)
The main character of the novel is Christopher who has autism. The book opens with a neighbour discovering her dog has been killed. Christopher loves to be a detective and sets out to discover who killed the dog. This book has been marketed as a novel for older children but I would caution against that. Even some parents of a child with autism will find the family relations distressful. This novel has received a lot of coverage and has been read on CBC so you might want to read it to see what your literary friends are reading about children with autism.

The Fabric of Autism
Judith Bluestone
Judith Bluestone, who herself triumphed over the challenges of autism, writes with insight into the impetus behind autistic behaviours, and weaves the various threads of autism into a "makes-sense" theory. Using hard facts, theory, and anecdotal examples, assists the reader in understanding and valuing those with autism.

The Facts: Autism
Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen and Dr. Patrick Bolton
Recommended highly as the best source from which parents and others can learn the key facts about autism.

The Golden Bridge: A Guide to Assistance Dogs for children challenged with autism...
Patty Dobbs Gross
The author draws from both personal and professional advice on how specially bred and trained dogs help to facilitate communication for children with developmental disabilities

The Incredible 5 Point Scale
Kerri Dunn Buron & Mitzi Curtis
This book will help teachers, EAs, and parents to truly understand the behaviour of students with aspergers and high functioning autism and to learn simple ways to manage behaviour problems

The Natural Medicine Guide to Autism
Stephanie Marohn
This book looks at some of the reasons autism is increasing at a rapid rate, and outlines eight natural medicine treatments assisting in the identifying and removal of triggers. The author believes that follow these treatments many of the symptoms of autism often disappear and a more normal life is possible for the child.

The RDI Book
Steven E. Gutstein, Ph. D.
The Relationship Development Intervention Program. This resource will guide parents in the cognitive, social and emotional development of children specifically with Autism, Asperger's and PDD. A unique dynamic intelligence curriculum is presented, encouraging children to seek out new challenges and overcome their fear of change.

Thinking in Pictures
Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin a gifted animal scientist gives a report on what autism looks like from the inside out as she has autism and is able to express how it feels to her and relates it to her many experiences.

Toilet Training for individuals with autism & related disorders
Maria Wheeler, M.Ed
This book offers effective strategies for teaching toilet training. The author has a background in neurobehavioural disorders, ABA therapy and specific learning disabilities.

Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive developmental Disorder: A Mother's Story of Search and Recovery
Karyn Seroussi
Evidence is increasing that children with Autism have defensive immune function, and that an external trigger' seems to lead to the onset of the autistic symptoms.

When your child has ... Asperger's Syndrome
William Stillman
This little book is part of a series of books to help families understand a diagnosis in order to find the best options for education, socializing and to help minimize sensory overload.

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Bipolar Disease

BiPolar Kids
Rosalie Greenberg
The author has worked in child psychiatry for 25 years and uses what she has learned in her innovative approach to helping children with Bipolar disorder find their inner calm.

The Bipolar Child, Third Edition
Demitri & Janice Papolos
This book will help parents find the answers to understanding their child's behaviour.

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Books for Struggling Readers

S.P.I.R.E.®
Suitable for pre and early readers.
The reading system designed for the way struggling readers learn.

Now I'm Reading!
Series 1 -3 suitable for very early readers.

High-Frequency Readers
Beginning readers
These small books introduce the 21 most used words for beginning readers.

Gigglers
Reading Level 1-2, Interest Level 2-4
Wonderfully funny early chapter books that all your students will love -- get them giggling, get them hooked!(32 pages each)

Sparklers
Reading Level 1-3, Interest Level 3-4

plots that develop quickly, while increasing in complexity
kids at the centre of each story
everyday challenges and successes combined with fantastic adventures
illustrated supports to introduce plot, characters, and setting
illustrations on every page
64 pages

Super Dooper
Reading Level 2-3, Interest Level 3-6
High-interest chapter books with simple stories and lots of illustrative support. (64 pages, 3-10 chapters)

BrainWaves
Reading Level 3-4, Interest Level 4-8
Sure to grab even the most RELUCTANT READER'S attention-covering high-interest topics such as great inventions, secret codes, and extreme sports.

Fact Meets Fiction
Reading Level 4-6, Interest Level 5+
Paired books let readers decide which is stranger - fact or fiction. (96 pages, 6 -8 chapters)

School Action + Natural Disasters
Independent reading
Offers exciting hi-lo books for independent reading practice. Innovative components with integrated skills support increase comprehension and language acquisition - helping struggling readers become successful readers.

Too Cool
Reading Level 2-3, Interest Level 3 -6
Sports-themed chapter books brimming with action, humour, and the imagination of Toocool, the greatest athlete in the world 44 pages, 5 - 6 chapters

Read 180 Graphic Novels
Grades 4 -8
with a mix of classic stories and non-fiction help students develop critical reading skills and acquire knowledge. Great for motivating struggling readers.

The News
This series presents facts that you need to know today. Good for projects.

Usbourne
We have a collection of books by Usbourne publishing that include classics retold as an easier reader i.e. Robinson Crusoe, Don Quixote, plus chapter books on topics covered in classroom i.e. weather, pirates, gladiators.

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Child Development

A Parent's Guide to Developmental Delays
Laurie LeComer
This book looks at recognizing & coping with missed milestones in speech, movement, learning and other areas. It gives real life examples and case studies along with checklists, exercises and hands-on advice.

Baby and Child Care (Keep it Simple Series)
Joanna Moorhead
Understand every stage of your child's development from birth through preschool

Floor Time - Tuning in to Each Child
based on the work of Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
This resource includes a 35 minute videotape, a developmental chart, a professional guide, parent-teacher handouts. as well as source material by the author. This professional development program comes from the publishers of Pre-K Today magazine. Encourages the emotional and cognitive development for healthy self-image of young children.

The Early Years: Birth to age 6
Editor: Tracey Cooper
This book is a guide of great parenting skills for ages 0-6

The First Years of Life
Burton L. White
This book gives a week-to-week mental, physical and emotional development of children aged 0 -3 years

When a Child you Love is Grieving
Harold Ivan Smith
Grief specialist Harold Smith gives practical steps to help the grieving child receive the necessary supports they need at a time of grief.

Your 6, 7,8,9,10-14 Year old
Louise Bates Ames Ph.D.
A great series that outlines the characteristics of each age group. It will help you know what is considered normal behaviour for each age group. It talks about everything from physical changes, social issues and even what to expect at that ages' birthday party!

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Children's Books

A Screaming Kind of Day
RGilmore & G Sauve
A picture book whose main character is hearing impaired. It tells about her dayand sibling rivalry.

Amazingly.... Alphie
Roz Espin
This story is about understanding and accepting different ways of being. It has a guide for using the book for teachers and parents to help facilitate discussion around children's perceived and real differences. The main character is a computer that doesn't operate in the same way as other computers and is considered a problem until someone comes in who seems to understand him and programs to achieve great things.

Baby on the Way
Sears, Sears and Kelly
A children's book to prepare the child for a new baby in the family

Bringing up Beauty
Sylvia McNicoll
This is a heartwarming coming-of-age story for young readers nine to 12 years old. Elizabeth has no intention of forming a bond with the black Lab puppy her family agrees to foster until it’s ready for guide dog training. The puppy, named Beauty, wreaks havoc in the household. Nonetheless, he becomes a special friend to Elizabeth who feels overwhelmed by problems in her social life and ignored by her parents. Giving him up will take a great deal of strength and self-sacrifice. Bringing Up Beauty is an unforgettable story of friendship.

Charlie Wilcox
Sharon McKay
A novel for older children who like a riveting story of friendship, loyalty, bravery and honour. The main character, Charlie was born sickly and has a club foot. He stows away on what he thinks is a fishing vessel to prove to his parents that he is made of tougher stuff. It is not a fishing vessel but a ship that takes him into battle in WW1.

Don't Call Me Special
Pat Thomas
A book for younger Children to find out what a disability is and learn how people with disabilities live happy and full lives

Extraordinary Friends
Fred Rogers
A great book for parents to read with their child to help them understand differences and similarities that will help take away the concerns of children toward other children with disabilities. Great pictures.

Freak the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick
This is a novel for children about triumph over imperfections, shame and loss. It is described as mesmerizing and suspenseful and poignant.

Give Maggie A Chance
Frieda Wishinsky
A book for young readers who struggle with the anxiety of reading and /or doing so in front of others.

Hank Zipper Series - Day of the Iguana
Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver
It is science project time and his sister's iguana lays 18 eggs inside his project!

Hank Zipper Series - I got a D in Salami
Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver
This book deals with Hank and his report card.

Hank Zipper Series - Niagara Falls, or does it?
Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver
This is thefirst book in the series about Hank showing how he really wants to do well in school but never seems to follow through on his good intentions

Hank Zipper Series - The Night I flunked My Field Trip
Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver
This story is about a field trip on a tall mast ship and all that can go wrong.

Hank Zipper Series - The Zippity Zinger
Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver
Hank is chosen as the teams' softball pitcher for the annual Olympiad.

Harvest Window
Roy Sallows
Part of the Jordan and Me series

How to be a Friend
L Brown & M Brown
This children's picture book is a great read for children who are having trouble making and keeping friends. It deals with shyness, arguments, and bosses and bullies.

Hurty Feelings
Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger
A book for children to help them understand compliments and accept them gracefully.

I am Utterly Unique
Elaine Larson
This book is published by the Autism Asperger Publishing Company . It is an alphabet book that celebrates the strengths of children with Asperger Syndrome and High functioning autism.

I Knew You Could
Craig Dorfman
A children's book - for all the stops in your life reminding us all that we all need to believe in ourselves

Ian’s Walk
Laurie Lears
A story for children about autism. It is about siblings and it is about seeing the world through Ian’s eyes.

I'm Wendy Blair, Not a Chair
Carolyn MacDiarmid
This children's book is a project of the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work. It supports inclusion, accessibility. of persons with disabilities

In the Clear
Anne Laurel Carter
A great chapter book, about a girl who loves hockey but after contracting polio is unable to play. Her Dad builds her a rink in the backyard but can she overcome her fears and her mother's over protectiveness to actually realize her dreams?

King Jordan
Roy Sallows
Part of the Jordan and Me series

Kissing Doorknobs
Terry Spencer Hesser
This is a chapter book for young teens to adults to read to understand what life is like living with an obsessive compulsive disorder. The author writes a funny, compelling and sensitive story of a teenage girl and how OCD effects her life.

Little by Little
Jean Little
This is a fictionalized autobiography suitable for teens and adults alike. It tells the story of Jean Little - a world famous children's author who was nearly blind from birth, who lived in China with her parents who were missionaries there. She talks about the ridicule, bullying and rejection she felt as a child. Her parents encouraged her to write poetry and stories and at age 17 her first poem was published in a national magazine. She has published many books for children and her latest book was set in Uxbridge - an historical novel. for children.

Making Friends with Jordan
Roy Sallows
This is the first in the series about Jordan who uses a wheelchair to get around. The pictures date the book a bit but the ideas and story line are good.

Mr. Worry - a story about OCD
Holly Niner
In this story Kevin has obsessive-compulsive disorder. The family uses cognitive behaviour therapy to help him unlearn the compulsions that control his thoughts. The counselor uses the telephone to help him understand his OCD and get them under control. He uses running shoes to help him understand the effect of meds.

My Best Friend Moved Away
Nancy Carlson
A children's bookabout the pain of farewells and the joys of hellos.

Oliver Onion
Diane Murrell
The Onion Who Learns to accept and be himself. This children's book comes with a discussion guide for teachers and parents to use to discuss accepting yourself, sensory issues, bullying and to use abstract thinking skills.

Otto Learns About His Medicine: A Story About Medication for Children with ADHD
Matthew Galvin, M.D
Otto, a fidgety young car, had trouble paying attention in school, has trouble remembering important information, and is unable to listen long enough to learn how to drive. Otto and his parents visit a special mechanic who explains about car medicine that will help him with his behaviour

Ready Freddy Homework Hassles
Abby Klein
An amusing story for kids (and parents) to read about a child who has trouble coming up with ideas for reports and projects and the trouble that gets him into when he falls behind in his homework.

Ruby Sings the Blues
Niki Daly
A great read for a parent and child about a child who is always too loud. She takes singing lesson to teach her volume control.

Russell is Extra Special
Charles Amenta M.D.
Explaining autism to children can be difficult . This book helps children and adults understand. The author has a child with ASD.

Simon's Hook: A story about teases and put-downs
Burnett & Burrows
A story of Simon whose grandma helps him understand how to react to teases and put downs by comparing them to a fish who doesn't take the bait. Great illustrations that will help those who need a visual image to remind them.

Some Kids are Blind
Lola Schaefer
A great resource for schools and parents to use to introduce differences to children. An early reader format. This book talks about children who are blind.

Some Kids are Deaf
Lola Schaefer
A great resource for schools and parents to use to introduce differences to children. An early reader format. This book talks about children who are deaf.

Some People Can't See
Roy Sallows
Part of the Jordan and Me series

Taking A.D.D to School
Eileen Weiner
A children's book for children with ADD and for those around them to understand how this effects their daily life.

The Alphabet Wars: A Story about Dyslexia
Diane Burton Robb
A true life story about Adam - a young boy who has dyslexia. It talks about his struggles at school with words and its effect on his learning and self esteem. A great book to read with your children.

The Gym Day Winner
Grace Maccarone
This is a hello reader - level one that has a child in a wheelchair as one of its characters

This is Gabriel Making Sense of School – a book about sensory processing disorder
Hartley Steiner – author, Brandon Fall – illustrator
This children’s book provides a look into the challenges children with Sensory Processing Disorder face in the classroom. This illustrated book gives an insight into all 7 senses, how they can be affected and what kinds of accommodations are necessary to help the kids become learning sensations.

Waiting for Banjamin
Alexandra Altman
A book for children about autism and siblings. A great book to explore siblings feelings.

What Baby Needs
Sears, Sears and Kelly
A children's book to prepare the child for a new baby in the family

What He Can't Do
Roy Sallows
Part of the Jordan and Me series

What's the Matter with Albert: A story aboutAlbert Einstein
Frieda Wishinsky
This interview with Albert Einstein not only points out his amazing achievements but also notes that Albert was slow to talk, was sometimes temperamental and a poor student.

You are Special
Max Lucado
A great book to share with your child who is feeling left out because they are different. It will help get across that message that they are special just the way they are.

Zoom
Robert Munsch
A children's book about Lauretta who wants her new wheelchair to go very, very fast!!

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Communication and Speech

Childhood Speech, Language & Listening Problems
Patricia McLeer Hamaguchi
If your child has trouble speaking or listening then this new revised and updated edition is the essential guide that explains what you can do to help. Written by a speech-language pathologist with more than 20 years experience.

DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY: Social Communication Intervention for Children with Autism
Kathleen Ann Quill

It Takes Two to Talk
Jan Pepper & Elaine Weitzman
A practical guide for parents of children with language delays. Easy to use.

Learning Language and Loving It
Elaine Weitzman & Janice Greenberg
A guide to promoting children's social, language, and literacy development in early childhood settings

Making Words: Lessons for Home or School
Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall
This book has over 50 lessons teaching students at a grade 3 level for writing skills

More Than Words
Fern Sussman
Helping parents promote communication and social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. A step-by-step guide that is easy to use and has practical ideas.

Reach Out with Words, Birth to 6 Years
Toronto Preschool Speech & Language Services
This easy to use calendar provides information and activities specific to speech and language development.

Teach Me Language
Sabrina Freeman and Lorelei Dake
This book and workbook were developed specifically to help parents, teachers and therapists teach children with autism and related disorders the language skills they need in school and life

Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success
Marshall Duke, Stephen Nowicki, Elisabeth Martin
This book looks at nonverbal language and will give parents and teachers the tools they need to help children communicate more effectively and interact more successfully.

Visual Strategies for Improving Communication
Linda Hodgdon
Contains numerous strategies to enhance communication interactions. Full of examples and illustrations.

When Listening Comes Alive: A Guide to Effective Learning and Communication
Paul Module
This book tells a story of how the diagnosis and treatment of the authors own listening problems led him to become a practitioner of the very disease that he had to overcome

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Developmental Disabilities

Children with Fragile X Syndrome: A Parents Guide
Jane Dixon Weber
Written by professionals this book offers up-to-date information on helping parents understand their child's strength and weaknesses. Topics include diagnosis, genetics, medical concerns and education.

Couples with Intellectual Disabilities Talk about Living and Loving
Karin Melberg Schweir
This book shows how relationships develop and thrive; it will open your heart and mind.

Spelling Love with an X
Clare Dunsford
This book tells the story of the author, her son who was diagnosed with Fragile X, and the whole family who discover they also may have the premutation of this syndrome. She wirtes with insight, humour, poetry, and most of all love.

The Child with Special Needs,: Encouraging intellectual and emotional growth
Stanley Greenspan & Serena Wieder
The first part of this book helps us discover our child's unique strengths, developmental capacities and challenges. Part Two looks at encouraging emotional and intellectual growth. Part Three looks at how to meet the child's unique need within the family, therapeutic situation and the school environment.

Throw your Heart Over the Fence
Diane Dupoy
The story of Famous People Players

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Down Syndrome

Angel Unaware
Dale Evans
This story was written about a family that had a member with down syndrome. Follow along the mothers' journey in life, with good times and bad.

Babies with Down's Syndrome - A New Parent's Guide
Karen Stray- Gundersen
A great first source of information on Down Syndrome. It is written by parents, doctors, nurses, educators and lawyers who cover everything parents need to know about raising a child in an environment of love, pride and achievement.

Guide to Good Health for Teens and Adults with Down Syndrome
Drs. Chicoine and McGuire
A companion book to Mental Wellness in Adults with Down Syndrome (Woodbine House, 2006), this book provides families, caregivers, and medical professionals with invaluable insight into what health problems are more common, and how medical issues present themselves uniquely. The authors discuss promoting a healthy lifestyle and the recognition of health problems early to ensure appropriate care for the best outcome.

The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook: Charting Your Child's Course to Adulthood
Jo Ann Simons, M.S.W
This valuable handbook provides parents with helpful tips and instructions designed to prepare Down Syndrome children for healthy adulthood. The guide covers important areas such as: postsecondary options, residential options, financial issues, training and employment, health care and family and community.

Your name is OLGA
Josep M Espinas
This book is a series of remarkable letters from the celebrated writer and journalist Joseph M. Espinas to his thirty year old daughter Olga, who has Down Syndrome. Every aspect of Olga's world, the affection between father and daughter, the ways in which her existence has enriched her fathers life are expressed in a simple yet compassionate manner.

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Education

A Mind at a Time
Mel Levine
Dr Levine (author of The Myth of Laziness) shows in this book that consistent progress can result when we realize that each child learns differently and outlines ways to strengthen positive learning patterns and bypass unsuccessful ones.

A Parent's Guide to Helping your Child with Homework & Studying
Moore & Jackson
This brochure was put out by the Durham Board of Education and gives an excellent set of information to help parents help their children and set reasonable achievable goals.

A Resource Guide for Parents and Educators of Blind Children
Doris M. Willoughby
This book gives both a general philosophy and practical suggestions applicable from infancy through high school.

Action for Inclusion: How to improve Schools by welcoming special needs children into regular classrooms
John O'Brien
Inclusion challenges everyone concerned with education to change their ideas about the place of children with special needs by changing routine practice and welcoming all children into the classroom

Ants in Their Pants: Teaching Children Who Must Love to Learn
Ariel Cross
This practical, hands-on resource is designed to help parents of extra-busy children, with a kinesthetic nature, create an environment in which they are able to learn and thrive.

Behaviour Solutions for the Inclusive Classroom
Beth Aune, Beht Burt & Peter Gennaro
This book is written for teachers but can be most helpful for parents as well to seek out solutions to issues that arise in both the classroom. It identifies a concern and then gives a reason why this might be happening and then gives 3 or 4 solutions to use in each situation.

Beyond F.A.T City - A Look Back, A Look Forward DVD
Richard Lavoie
Following his ever popular DVD FAT City based on the frustration, anxiety and Tension (FAT)that children with LD deal with on a daily basis this video offers practical strategies as well as inspirational messages for those who teach and parent children with learning disability. 90 min.

Boys and Literacy
Elizabeth Knowles and Martha Smith
This book offers strategies based in the latest brain-based research to help in both the classroom and the home. The authors give lists of books by genre to help boys get into the reading habit.

Brain Gym
Teachers Edition
The movements and activities in this book are solely for educational use. This is not a diagnosis.

Bright Ideas - Games for Phys Ed
Scholastics
Lots of ideas for busy teachers who need practical activities for children 5 - 12 years old.

Classroom Language - Skills for Children with Down Syndrome
Libby Kumin
This book looks at the barriers to classroom learning and gives very specific instruction on how to overcome some of the barriers. This book is not just for children with down syndrome many of its techniques have been used with children with any developmental disability.

Count Me In!: A guide to teaching disabled and able bodied children together
Philip Blackford
This book strives to throw old labels and stereotypes and encourages teachers to see commonality between disabled and able-bodied children

Creative Play Activities for Children with Disabilities
Developed by the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr Foundation
This book may be used as a resource for parents and teachers involved with children with disabilities

Educating all Students in the Main Stream of Regular Education
Editor: Susana Stainback
This book explains approaches for merging or integrating special and regular education.

Education and Integration of the Physically handicapped preschooler
Min. Of Community and Social Services
A resource document from 1981

Educating the Special Needs Child
William Glover
This book was designed to introduce parents and educators tools and strategies needed to work with learning disabled children

Education Act - 2003
A reference document

Essentials of WIAT-II and KTEA-ll Assessment
Elizabeth O Lichtenberger and Donna R. Smith
Covers administration, scoring and interpretation of the WIAT-ll and KTEA-ll tests, which measure individual achievement for both adult and child performance. This book provides students and practitioners with an unparalleled resource for learning, application, assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses and case reports.

Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment
Dawn P. Flanagan and Alan S. Kaufman
Covers administration, scoring, interpretation and reporting of the WISC-IV, providing students and practitioners with an unparalleled resource for learning and application, including expert assessment of the test`s relative strengths and weaknesses, advice on its clinical applications as well as case reports.

Exceptional Children-Ordinary Schools
Dr. Norm Forman
This book is filled with practical advise for concerned parents

Hooked on Math
Gateway Educational Products
This is the complete package that you can borrow and is complete with tapes and instructions.

Hooked on Phonics
Gateway Educational Products
This is the complete package that you can borrow and is complete with tapes and instructions.

How to Teach Your Baby to Read: The Gentle Revolution
Glenn Doman and Janet Doman
This book outlines practically why and how children are able to learn at a young age, and specifically how parents can teach their young child how to read and maximize their learning potential using a simple daily program that is easy to follow.

How to Teach Your Baby Math: More Gentle Revolution
Glenn Doman and Janet Doman
This book, following in the footsteps of How to Teach Your Baby To Read, is a guide for parents to develop their child's ability to learn valuable math skills at a young age using a simple daily program that is easy to follow.

Info- Kids
Ron Jobe and Mary Dayton-Sakari
This book looks at the needs of children who are primarily drawn to nonfiction information and develops strategies using this fact to improve their reading and writing skills.

Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs
Darlene Mannix
A collection of 190 ready-to -use lessons with reproducible worksheets to help children develop the basic skills necessary to experience independence and success in everyday living. Best suited to students who have LD or are high functioning.

Making Words: Lessons for Home or School
Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall
This book has over 50 lessons teaching students at a grade 3 level for writing skills

Pathways to Student Success
Durham District School Board Focus Programs: DDSB 2006-2007
A comprehensive listing of programs and apprenticeships for students seeking alternative modes of education to prepare them for leaving secondary school.

Planning Entry into School: A resource guide
Ontario Government 2005
This guide is to help facilitate entry into school for all children. There is a separate section for children with special needs.

Poems for Shared Reading
Karen Sharpe
This book is a grade 1 level to teach students phonemic awareness

Precious Minds: Nurturing Literacy in the Early Years
Ottawa Kiwanis Club
This 15 min. video outlines the importance of reading to children - even as young as 0-3 years of age. It impacts how well they do in school and beyond.

Public School Integration of Severely Handicapped Students
Editor: Nick Certo, Ph.D.
This book was written to provide factual, conceptual, and economic counterpoint to the many myths, alarmist exaggerations and opinions often based on incomplete information that have effectively blocked many severely handicapped students from receiving their education in the same setting as their peers.

Reading Magic
Mem Fox
The author explores the impact reading aloud to children has on their ability to read and on their entire lives. This book is filled with practical advice, activities and inspiring stories.

Ready, Willing and Disabled
Norman Kunc
Author writes this book on personal experiences as he has Cerebral Palsy.

Resources for Teaching Young Children with Special Needs
Penny Low Deiner
This is a resource book designed to help teachers prepare programs for children with special needs who are taught in a regular class

Social Skills Activities
Darlene Mannix
A collection of 187 ready-to- use worksheets to help students with special needs in grades 6 -12 build the social skills they need to interact effectively with others and learn how to apply theses skills to various real- life settings, situations and problems. Best suited to students who have LD or are high functioning.

Special Education in Ontario Schools
Ken Weber
Classroom practices, administrative procedures, and Ontario government policies in special education are built around the ideal that it is possible to respond to the strengths and needs of every special student.

Special Education in Ontario: Understanding Bill 82
Anne Keeton-Wilson
The purpose if the book is to acquaint teachers and parents with the special education legislation in Ontario known as Bill 82 - a dated but good background resource

Straight Talk About Psychological Testing for Kids
Ellen Braaten

Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration
Koomar, Kranowitz, Szuklut
A small but great book filled with check lists and other tools that are invaluable for those with sensory challenges.

The ABC's of the School System
Catherine Rooney
A- advocate for your Child, B- Be knowledgeable of your rights, C- Communicate well with school personnel

The Best Sight Word Book Ever
Sherrill Flora
Studies show that children who have strong automatic word identification skills will also have good comprehension skills. This book provides a wealth of suggestions and activities for teaching sight words.

The End of Ignorance
John Mighton
In this book John Mighton shows what can be achieved by combining an understanding of the developing brain's plasticity with an awareness of the complex needs of young learners. He is the author of the Myth of Ability and JUMP Math

The Gift of Reading
David Bouchard & Wendy Sutton This book emphasizes the need for parents and educators to be active readers themselves in order to instill in the children around them the fun of reading. The book includes ideas to help children and teens become avid readers.

The Hidden Curriculum
Myles, Trautman, Schelvan
This book offers practical solutions for understanding unstated rules in social situations.

The Myth of Ability: Nurturing mathematical talent in every child
John Mighton
The founder of JUMP (junior undiscovered math prodigies) describes why he feels that too many students are failing at math and why that shouldn't be. He describes JUMP's methods of teaching math and how every child can be successful in math.

The Myth of Laziness
Mel Levine, M.D
Almost no one is actually lazy, low productivity whether in school or on the job is almost always caused by a genuine problem, a neuro-developmental dysfunctionMel Levine

The Special Needs Reading List: An Annotated Guide to the Best Publications for Parents and Professionals
Wilma K. Sweeney
Provides short reviews and recommendations of the best books, journals, newsletters, organizations, and others information sources about children with disabilities.

Think of Something Quiet
Clare Cherry
The stress and the busyness of society falls over into our children. This book will help find serenity in early education classrooms.

Widening the Circle
Mara Sapon-Shevin
This book digs beneath classroom strategies to find larger truths about difference, exposing the moral implications of segregation. The author uses gifted story-telling to broaden the way we think about inclusion.

Word Problems: Basic Skills Series
Teachers Created Materials INC.
This book uses word problem to teach math skills

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Epilepsy

Epilepsy: A New Approach
Adrienne Richard & Joel Rieter, MD
This book combines Adrienne's story of overcoming her debilitating condition with Dr Reiter's medical knowledge of diagnosis and treatment.

Epilepsy and your child ( 2 copies )
Parents Information Booklet

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Family

A Difference in the Family: Living with a Disabled Child
Helen Featherstone
The author discusses how parents and siblings cope with their feelings of fear, guilt, and loneliness and explains what kinds of support and understanding can be provided by doctors, therapists and teachers

Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs: raising the bar of expectation
Judy Winter
The book helps in letting go of the 'perfect baby ' dream, facing reality in a positive way, resolving grief, accessing early intervention therapies and planning for transitions.

Changed by a Child
Barbara Gill
A book that honestly describes the inner needs and range of issues parents face with disabled children. It is filled with true stories from parents, who have been there. who understand the isolation and challenges, this is a work of compassion and insight, inspiration and hope.

Circles of Friends: People with disabilities and their friends enrich the lives of one another
Robert Perske
In this warm, sensitive collection, Robert and Martha Perske offer true stories and issues to ponder, aboutfriendships between people with disabilities.

Disability in the Family: A guide to Decisions for Adulthood
H.Rutherford Turbull III, LLB.,LLM
This book has the answer to all the different questions that arise about having child with special needs and their future

Don't sweat the small stuff with your family
Richard Carleson
He gives practical advice on how to not sweat the small stuff in our homes.

Easy for you to say
Miriam Kaufman
Q&As for teens living with a chronic illness or disability

Family First
Dr Phil McGraw
Family is more important today than ever before but it is losing and society in general must fight to preserve it.

In Time and With Love: Caring for the Special Needs Baby
Marilyn Segal, PH.D
This book looks at 5 topics - the time of adjustment, everyday living, playing and learning, decision making and resources. An excellent resource for families with recently diagnosed baby.

Living with a Brother or Sister with Special Needs
Donald J .Meyer
This book has many different strategies that help siblings deal with many different scenarios having a family member with special needs

Reflections from a Different Journey: What adults with disabilities wish all parents knew
Edited byKemp & Klein
A collection of essays written by individuals with disabilities such as CP, down syndrome, autism, learning disabilities, and spina bifida. Each chapter covers topics such as Love me and accept just the way I am, Parents are the most important expert..

Sibshops: Workshops for Siblings of Children with Special Needs
Donald J. Meyer & Patricia F. Vadasy
Children who have brothers and sisters with special needs have needs of their own -- needs that are often overlooked. This practical resource helps children to express their good and bad feelings about having siblings with disabilities.

Straight from the Siblings: Another Look at the Rainbow
Edited by Gloria Murray & Gerald Jampolsky
A book for and by brothers and sisters who have a sibling with a life threatening illness (3 copies)

The Healthy Family
Sandi Richard
This cookbook is about healthy dinners that will help your stress level drop and your health improve.

The Sibling Slam Book
Don Meyer
A novel layout that answers some of those questions parents wonder about their child has about hi/her sibling with special needs. For example "What is the hardest thing about having a sibling with special needs?"

What about the Big Stuff?
Richard Carleson
Overcoming aging anxiety, experience calm resolve, looking to retirement - these are some of the big things we need to focus on.

Who Put My Life on Fast-Forward?
Phil Callaway
If you feel stuck in an unending loop of busyness and fatigue, this book will inspire you to slowdown and rest in order to find joy in your life.

YES THEY CAN!: A Handbook for Effectively Parenting The Handicapped
Renee Mollan M.A
If you were going to call your child something other than handicapped, what would it be? In recent years this topic has been under discussion.

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General

Bridging the Gap: Government of Canada programs and services of interest to Canadians with disabilities
Human Resources Development Canada
This directory, Bridging the Gap, has been organized under such topics as employment and entrepreneurship, housing, human rights, taxation and transportation.

Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul
Various, including Jack Canfield, Marty Becker, DVM, Peter Vegso
Inspirational stories about people who have allowed a horse or horses to be involved in their lives - or have just admired them from afar.

Free the Children
Craig Kielburger
At the ago of 12, Craig Kielburger saw this headline: "Battled child labor, boy, 12, murdered." and along with his classmates, Free the Children began. This book chronicles the authors early years as a child rights activist, his first trip to South Asia when he accompanied a Canadian human rights worker into the slums, sweatshops and back alleys, the stories and photographs of these children, and the progression into the author becoming one of the world's leading defenders of children's rights.

Passages
Gail Sheehy
In this book the author looks at life's crisis as an opportunity for creative change.

Services for Children Birth to Six Years with Special Needs in Durham Region
The Children's Services Council. INC.
This booklet was developed to provide parents an introduction about services that are available for children 0-6 years old with special needs

Statistical Profile of Disabled Persons in Ontario Volume 1
By Shirley Collins
This book provides people with disabilities, organizations, and policies and program developers with a means to identify important issues and assess improvements

The Special Needs Reading List: An Annotated Guide to the best Publications for Parents and Professionals
Wilma K. Sweeney
Provides short reviews and recommendations of the best books, journals, newsletters, organizations, and others information sources about children with disabilities.

The World Needs Your Kid
Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger, Shelley Page
The sub-title of this book is "How to raise children who care and contribute", co-authored by two brothers who are the founders of Free the Children and Shelley Page who has adopted 2 girls from China. It highlights opportunities to teach your child about compassion, courage and community and encourage them to become global citizens.

Thought and Feelings
McKay, Davis & Fanning
This book looks at cognitive behaviour techniques to deal with worry, panic, depression, phobias, anger etc.

Today's Kids
A magazine for families with short articles on living with a disability and new products available.

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Health and Nutrition

125 Best Gluten-Free Recipes
Donna Washburn & Heather Butt
Contains 125 recipes for those affected by gluten intolerance.

Aromatherapy
Lautie & Passebecq
This book covers the use of natural plant essences in healing

Burn Brightly without Burning Out
Dick Briggs
This booklet focuses on balancing your career with the rest of your life.

Convenient, Safe and Deadly: The True Cost of our Chemical Lifestyle
Flora Preston
The story of one woman's life and return to life from major life destroying reactions to chemical that are everywhere - in food, in buildings, etc.

Cooking for the Rushed
Sandi Richard
This cookbook has lip-smacking meals that are both healthy and fast

Diabetes
Katherine Moran, Lisa P. Merriman
This book looks at specific problems or issues that teens may face. It is written for a teen and is a hands-on practical guide that addresses the social and health issues of teens 16 -19. It should empower them to live healthy so that they may live their life to its fullest.

Fit Kids
Mary Gavin, Steven Dowshe, Neil Izenberg
A great resource that will help you pick the right kind of exercise and meals broken down by age/stage groups. It gives easy to follow activities and recipes. It gives sensitive, practical advice on helping youngsters at risk of being overweight.

Gluten-Free Cooking
The Australian Women's Weekly
Contains over 45 gluten-free recipes that are based on fresh, readily available ingredients.

Just Take a Bite: easy effective answers to food aversions and eating challenges
Lori Ernsperger, Tania Stegen-Hanson
This book offers a practical and contemporary approach to helping children who are problem eaters. It gives clear and concise strategies and explanations of how children with sensory issues are feeling.

Massage
Keep It Simple Series
Everything you ever need to know about massage from stress relief, headaches and techniques for children.

Soiling Solutions
Robert Collins
The Clean Kid Manual III - A manual to address issues of childhood soiling - encopresis. It covers - causes and effects, looks at both the medical and behavioural view of this issue and then goes on to give very specific methods to help overcome it and encourages you along the way.

Special Diets For Special Kids Two
Lisa Lewis, Ph.D.
More great tasting recipes and tips for implementing special diets to aid in the treatment of autism and related developmental disorders

The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook
Marjorie Hurt Jones
Contains over 350 natural food recipes, free of ALL common food allergens, such as: milk, eggs, corn, sugar, soy, wheat, gluten, and yeast.

The Feingold Cookbook For Hyperactive Children: and others with problems associated with food additives and salicylates
Ben F. Feingold, M.D. and Helene S. Feingold
This valuable resource provides delicious additive and salicylate-free menus and recipes (including snacks) for the entire family, designed to help families manage various behavioral issues using the Feingold diet.

The Feingold Program
Feingold Association
This binder assists in organizing the family diet to eliminate potential foods that may impact behavioral deficits, attention span, compulsive aggression, cognitive disorders, poor sleep habits, to name a few. Included are recipes/menu planning, medical/supplements, and a Canadian foodlist and shopping guide.

The Healthy Family
Sandi Richard
This cookbook is about healthy dinners that will help your stress level drop and your health improve.

Why Can't My Child Behave?
Jane Hersey
A resource for parents dealing with children who are experiencing coping, learning or behaviour problems. The Feingold Diet updated, looking at additives, salicylates, coping skills, school, social skills, ADD, food allergies, studies on diet and behaviour/learning. Index helps narrow to specific items reader may be interested in.

Women's Health Handbook
Dr. Miriam Stoppard
Maintaining health means being aware when something is amiss. This book gives you that information .

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Hearing Disabilities

Emergency Preparedness: Guide for People with Disabilities/Special Needs
Ontario Gov't
Under each category the guide provides information on how individuals and families should prepare for emergencies given their special needs.

Learning to Listen: A book for mothers of the hearing impaired
Editor- Pat Vaughan
This book includes personal stories about mothers with hearing impaired children as well as techniques that can be applied to your everyday life

Literacy and Your Deaf Child: What every parent should know
David Stewart & Bryan Clarke
This new guide provides parents with the means to provide their hard of hearing or deaf child becomes a proficient reader and writer. It covers the topics - hearing aids, cochlear implants, speech-reading, and sign communication.

Some Kids are Deaf
Lola Schaefer
A great resource for schools and parents to use to introduce differences to children. An early reader format. This book talks about children who are deaf.

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Learning Disabilities

A Parents Guide To Learning Disabilities
Joanna Fisher
This book is an excellent resource for parents of children with learning disabilities

A Special Kind of Brain
Nancy Russell Burger
The author shares her experience with bringing up a child with NLD. The book covers diagnosis and therapy, children's interaction with each other, suitable activities and how to discuss NLD with children.

ADDitude Magazine
A monthly magazine that covers every aspect of raising a child with ADD/LD

Bridging the Gap: Raising a Child with Nonverbal Learning Disorder
Rondalyn Varney Witney
In this book the author -- a pediatric OT and the parent of achild with a NVLD -- offers practical, powerful strategies that will help you put your child on the path to a happy, healthy, fulfilling life.

Dyslexia: A Complete Guide for Parents
Gavin Reid
A guide for parents to identify dyslexia and understand it, strategies for at home to complement school work, working with professionals in the field and their responsibilities. Book includes first-hand accounts of parents' successes and setbacks, as well as lists of organizations and other helpful resources. The book offers crucial information and advice, as well as encouragement and hope.

Educating the Special Needs Child
William Glover
This book was designed to introduce parents and educators tools and strategies needed to work with learning disabled children

Guiding Teens with Learning Disabilities: Navigating the Transition from High School to Adulthood
Arlyn Roffman, Ph.D. featuring a chapter Loring C. Brinckerhoff, Ph. D.
Forward by Charles Schwab.
This book is designed as a practical guide to help parents and other supporters and caregivers of students with Learning Disabilities prepare for the transition from high school to adulthood. The book contains advice on important issues such as: mental health and wellness, disability law, and overall preparing teens for learning, employment and life in the community.

Help For Dyslexic Children
Miles and Miles
This book looks at helping dyslexic children by giving practical methods to help in areas of concern and outlines how important it is to use common sense and observation of your child.

Helping Your Dyslexic Child
Eileen M. Cronin, Ph.D.
Help your child overcome dyslexia including understanding words, discerning left from right and counting money, and in so doing, achieve a greater sense of self-esteem.

How Difficult Can this Be?: F.A.T. City
Richard Lavoie
This DVD looks at understanding the frustration, anxiety, and tension children with learning disabilities feel in school and at home. A must-see for all parents and teachers of those with LD

How to Reach and Teach Children & Teens with DYSLEXIA
Cynthis Stowe
Everything you need to understand dyslexia and help your child thrive both in school but in their everyday lives and prepare for fulfilling careers. Includes over 50 full page activity sheets.

Its So Much Work to be Your Friend
Richard Lavoie
This books looks at the learning disabled child and the need for social success. It gives insight and practical advice to help parents and educators.

Learning Disabilities & Social Skills: Last One Picked .First One Picked On
Richard Lavoie
This video addresses the social problems that children with learning disabilities face and offers some practical solutions for families.

Learning Disabilities A to Z
Corrine Smith, Lisa Strick
The authors write with warmth and compassion as they explain the causes, identification and treatment of learning disabilities. The present a wealth of practical information and strategies for helping our children be the very best they can be.

Like Sound Through Water
Karen J Foli
Karen Foli tells her story of her son Ben's auditory processing disorder and the journey to get a diagnosis and help.

Many Ways to Learn: A Kid's Guide to LD, Second Edition
Judith M. Stern, MA, and Uzi Ben-Ami, PhD.
A resource packed with advice and strategies for kids with LD - written for the kids. Tools for doing homework, taking tests, better planning, organization, and using technology to make life easier. Topics also include reading, math, written and oral language, and non-verbal, as well as life outside of school. Parents will benefit from the information as well.

Overcoming Dyslexia: A new and complete science based program for reading problems at any level.
Sally Shaywitz M.D.
The author shares how to identify those with dyslexia at different age categories - from preschoolers to young adults, how to find the best school and teacher for your child and exercises to help your child use parts of the brain that control reading. Her epilogue gives the reader hope as she uses the life stories of those who have overcome dyslexia to go on to be very successful.

Overcoming Dyslexia
Beve Hornsby
This book answers your questions about one of today's most worrying and misunderstood conditions, which affects 1 in 10 children.

Page Fright
CBC
Page Fright is the story of children with learning disabilities. In this 30 minute video you will see these students struggles in school, playground and on the street.

Raising NLD Superstars
Marcia Brown Rubinstien
This book looks at what families with nonverbal learning disabilities need to know about nurturing confident, competent kids.

Reading by the Colors
Helen Irlen
The Irlen Method is able to help many adults and children improve their reading abilities. This book describes, in lay terms what the treatment consists of, how it works, and what its limitations are.

Ready for Take-Off: Preparing Your Teen with ADHD or LD for College
Theresa E. Laurie Maitland, PhD, and Patricia O. Quinn, MD
A resource teaching you how to promote self-determination, academic and daily living skills in your teen, needed to succeed in college and in life. You will become skilled at coaching and learn how to have empowering conversations with your teen. Tells parents what to do - and just as important - what not to do.

The Dominance Factor
Carla Hannaford, Ph.D
This book shows how knowing your dominant Eye, Ear, Brain, Hand and Foot can improve your learning

The Facts: Dyslexia and other Learning Difficulties
Mark Selikowitz
This book is an up-to-date resource on many learning disorders and their treatments

The Gift of Dyslexia
Ron Davis
This first book outlines The Davis Method clearly and simply so anyone can understand and begin to help the person with dyslexia.

The Hidden Handicapped
Gordon Serfontein
This book was written to help parents have a better understanding of how to recognize if their child has a learning disability

The Power of Positive Talk
Douglas Bloch
You have a big influence on the 'self talk' of the children in your life. This book explains about affirmations and makes affirmations easy to understand, teach and use.

The Survival Guide for Kids with LD
Gary Fisher & Rhoda Cummings
This book is written for kids but has valuable info for parents too. It gives info on what LD is as well as practical help like what to do when kids tease you.

When the Brain Can't Hear: Unraveling the mystery of auditory processing disorder
Teri James Bellis, Ph.D
In this book Dr Bellis discusses the latest and most promising clinical advances and treatment options. She explains the nature of this condition and uses case studies to illustrate the condition's effects on the lives of those who have it.

When the Chips are Down
Richard Lavoie
This video looks at learning disabilities and the behavioural issues that come along with such a disability. Richard Lavoie gives many helpful strategies on dealing with issues quickly and effectively. He explains how teachers and parents can create a stable, predictable environment where kids can flourish.

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Life Skills

Connections: A planning guide for parents of sons and daughters with a mental handicap
Kennith V. Pike and Pauline F. Steinmann
As a parent with a son or daughter who has a handicap, you will have many questions and fears about your child's future. With every passing year these questions get stronger and stronger. This book will answer these questions.

For Smokers Who Want to Quit
Canadian Cancer Society
This book is a one step at time guide to quit smoking

Helping You Helps Me
Canadian Council of Social Development
Self Help is a way to deal with problems that everyone faces at one point or another in their lives

How to get Control of Your Time and Your Life
Alan Lakein
A famous time management expert gives a lot of practical advise on how to work smarter not harder.

Job-Hunting Tips for the So-Called Handicapped or People Who Have Disabilities
Richard Nelson Bolles
The author encourages both the employer and prospective employee to focus on the abilities, to recognize that all of us have disabilities, and to realize that its the abilities that make a person employable. This book adresses the feelings of the disabled and in so doing, gives hope and motivation to them.

Making Visual Supports Work in the Home and the Community, strategies for individuals with autism and asperger syndrome
Jennifer Savner & Brenda Smith Myles
This book has so many practical ideas to help in daily living.

Ready OR Not , Here Life Comes
Mel Levine
The author talks about many 20 somethings' feel abandoned and anguished and question their own self worth. He will help them learn to live a life that is right for them, not an existence that sounds right.

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Medication

Guide to Drugs in Canada
Lalitha Ramen-Wilms
A practical and jargon free home reference guide to medications sold in Canada.

Should I Medicate My Child?
Lawerence H. Diller, M.D
This is a deeply informative guide to helping parents make the best decision with and without medication -- for children with psychological problems

Should You Medicate Your Child's Mind?
Elizabeth Roberts M.D.
A child psychiatrist who specializes in the evaluation and treatment of children clearly helps parents understand how to decide on everything from choosing the right doctor, to asking the right questions, to monitoring medication. An excellent resource.

Special-Needs Kids Go Pharm-Free
Judy Converse
Advice to parents of special needs children for maximizing good nutrition in order to lessen the need for pharmaceuticals. The book presents condition-specific information in using healthful foods, ingredients, and nutritional supplements, covering asthma, ADHD, autism, allergies, and mood and learning problems.

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OCD

Kissing Doorknobs
Terry Spencer Hesser
This is a chapter book for young teensto adults to read to understand what life is like living with an obsessive compulsive disorder. The author writes a funny, compelling and sensitive story of a teenage girl and how OCD effects her life.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Tamar E Chansky PH.D
This book will help parents understand the often-frightening symptoms of OCD. It will help your child break free form the disruptive, relentless thoughts, actions and bizarre symptoms that characterize this disorder.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: a complete guide to getting well and staying well
Fred Penzel
This book contains a great deal of information on this disorder including detailed information on behaviour therapy for OCD.

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Parenting

1-2-3 Magic - Effective discipline for children 2-12
Thomas Phelan
This 3rd edition focuses on the difficult task of child discipline with humour, keen insight and proven experience. He uses 3 steps - controlling obnoxious behaviour, encouraging good behaviour and strengthening your relationship.

A Cup of Comfort for Parents of Children with Special Needs
Colleen Sell
Meet 50 remarkable kids, each with a story that has given their parents wisdom and encouragement, as these kids achieve small victories daily.

Baby and Child Care (Keep it Simple Series)
Joanna Moorhead
Understand every stage of your child's development from birth through preschool

Baby's Learn and Play Pack
Dr. Miriam Stoppard
Toys - games - activities to develop your baby's natural abilities

Chicken Soup for the Soul – children with special needs
Canfield, Hansen, McNamara and Simmons
These powerful stories are filled with honesty, humour and hope. They offer inspiration to parents , teachers, and anyone else who cares for children with special needs.

Connected Parenting
Jennifer Kolari
In this book you will learn to respond to your challenging child without exasperation or anger. You will be armed with proven tools to help your child develop the emotional muscle and neurological hardware to deal with whatever comes their way. This book includes the author’s 4-step CALM strategy.

Different Dads
Jill Harrison, Matthew Henderson, Rob Leonard
Fathers' stories of parenting disabled children. A valuable source of support and information for families with disabled children, from 21 different Father's, all with different stories.

Early years- Final Report
Co.-Chairs: Margarot, Norrie, McCain
This book talks about understanding brain development in the early years and it's effects on subsequent learning, behavior and health

Family Series: Raising Kids Who Love Learning
Marge Kennedy
This book relates to the importance of letting and helping children learn about themselves and the world around them. It also touches on the three main areas of growth: physical, emotional, and intellectual

Family Travel & Resorts
Pamela Lanier
This guide gives information on over 2500 places to go and practical information such as packing, health issues etc.

Fatherhood
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood is pretending that the present you love most is soap on a rope. Knowing that you're in trouble when the child says 'No Problem'". This book provides a humourous look at fatherhood.

How it Feels to be Adopted
Jill Krementz
A collection of stories from children and teens talking about how it feels to be adopted

How Rude - the teenagers guide to good manners, proper behaviour and not grossing people out!!
Alex J Packer
The title says it all. A fun book for you and your teenager!

How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk
Faber and Mazlich
This book will give you the know-how you need to be more effective with your children.

I used to have answers and now I have kids
Phil Callaway
This fun light hearted book looks at all aspects of parenting from toddlerhood to teens.

Just because it's not wrong doesn't make it right. From Toddlers to Teens:
Teaching Kids to Think and Act Ethically
Barbara Coloroso
Building on the idea that people are born with an innate ability to care, Barbara Coloroso instructs parents how to guide the ethical lives of developing children using situations at home, school, and other social and external settings.

Kids are Worth It!
Barbara Coloroso
Whether parents are trying to toilet train a toddler, tackle the tough issues of sex and drugs with teens or figure out allowances and curfews, Coloroso offers a book loaded with practical advice, tips and solutions.

Love You to Pieces
Suzann Kamata
A compilation of literary writing on raising a child with special needs – autism, deafness, muscular dystrophy and more. The stories are beautifully told from many different backgrounds.

More Than a Mom
Amy Basket, Heather Fawcett
A lifeline of information for moms who have children with special needs. This book will help you cope, adjust and find the inspiration to make your daily life easier and more fulfilling. There is helpful advice on sleeping and eating well, nurturing your marriage juggling career and home and finding quality care for your children.

Nurture the Nature
Michael Gurian
Based on the most recent brain research, this book talks about escaping the social trends parenting system, understanding the core nature of your child and nurturing that nature from infant to nineteen and older ages. A book filled with wisdom, intensely moral, promoting self-reliance and self-discipline.

Parenting a Struggling Reader
Susan Hall, Louisa Moats
This book includes a detailed, realistic program for helping parents be actively involved in their child’s reading lives. With a four step plan for identifying and resolving deficiencies, as well as advice for those whose children received weak instruction in the early years, this is a book full with practical hope for the next generation.

Parenting through Crisis
Barbara Coloroso
The renowned author provides insight and practical ‘ages and stages’ guide to helping kids through death, illness or divorce. She also deals with issues like adoption, single or step parenting and reprotechnology.

Protect your Child from Bullying
Allan L. Beane
A resource for parents to recognize the signs of bullying, tell the difference between normal conflict and bullying, take appropriate action, help prevent cyberbullying, assist your child in taking action when others are being mistreated and lay a solid foundation for bullying situations, as well as helping them develop a strong sense of acceptance and belonging.

Raising A Kid With Special Needs: The Complete Canadian Guide
Lisa Bendall
Lisa Bendall, disability expert, guides getting past the "special needs" and on to the business of living, with advice on health, school, finances, advocacy know-how, family, and the future. Includes resource information, strategies and personal stories from parents in the know.

Raising Kids Who Love to Learn
CTW Family Living Series
Child focused activities to use at home and school to provide dozens of learning opportunities for children.

She is Gonna Blow
Julie Ann Barnhill
This book offers the mom who is dealing with anger issues hope, honest understanding and a good measure of laughter.

Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems
Richard Ferber
This is a practical and easy to follow book on how to solve such problems as night terrors, bedwetting, refusing to go to bed etc.

Special Children Challenged Parents
Robert Naseef
The author is both a parent of a child with special needs and a practicing psychologist who specializes in helping families who have children with special needs. This book will help you acknowledge and manage difficult emotions, recognize differences in the way fathers and mothers deal with a child's disability etc

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Sean Covey
In this book the author will help your teen improve self image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, get along with their parents and much more.

The Anti-Bullying HandBook
Keith Sullivan
This book is for parents and educators and helps us understand what bullying is and how to arrest it or prevent it.

The Early Years: Birth to age 6
Editor: Tracey Cooper
This book is a guide of great parenting skills for ages 0-6

The Explosive Child
Ross Greene
An explosive child frequently exhibits severe noncompliance, temper outbursts and verbal or physical aggression. This book lays out a sensitive, practical approach to helping your child at home and school.

The Good Enough Child
Brad Sachs
The author uses lively anecdotes, practical strategies and hands on exercises that will help you develop realistic expectations for your family.

The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child
Alan E. Kazdin, Ph. D.
Alan Kazdin, Professor of Psychology at Yale University, makes available to parents for the first time his proven program dealing with behaviour problems, after 30 years of respected research. Shattering myths about tantrums, time-outs, punishments fitting the crimes, and more, it is a lifesaving handbook for parents of children who are "out of control". DVD included.

The Optimistic Child
Martin Seligman
Selingham shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression, achieve more on the playing field and at school and improve their physical health.

The Power of Positive Talk
Douglas Blotch
This book leads you step by step through the process of guiding kids to turn off the 'no voice' within and activate the powerful 'yes voice'

Try and Make Me!: Simple strategies that turn off the tantrums and create cooperation
Ray Levy, Ph.D
This book is an approach to child rearing that ends the madness, prevents future violence and helps children become the cooperative and well adjusted big people they want to be.

What a Child Will Be Depends on You and Me: A Resource Kit for a Child's First Five Years
Invest in Kids
Invest in Kids is a national non-for-profit foundation dedicated to the healthy social, emotional and intellectual development of children aged 0-5.

When a child is grieving
Harold Ivan Smith
This book is a great collection of stories, practical suggestions and grief wisdom for helping children who have experienced the death of a family member or friend.

Your 6, 7, 8, 9, 10-14 Year old
Louise Bates Ames Ph.D.
A great series that outlines the characteristics of each age group. It will help you know what is considered normal behaviour for each age group. It talks about everything from physical changes, social issues and even what to expect at that ages' birthday party!

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Physical Disabilities

A Guide to Cerebral Palsy
Van Colledge
This booklet gives a base of facts about Cerebral Palsy

Abilities magazine
A Canadian lifestyle magazine for people with disabilities

Active Living
A magazine for anyone with a physical disability

Lessons from Jacob
Ellen Schwartz
Through the diagnosis of her son's neurodegenerative disorder this mother sees that it was a most wonderful gift she was given in raising Jacob.

Not Just Growing Pains
Thomas Lehman
This is a guide to childhood muscle, bone and joint pain, rheumatic diseases and the latest treatments.

Ontario Rehabilitation Technology Consortium
Editors: Dayle Levine, Morris Milner, Fraser Shein
This book is dedicated to the research and development of assertive technologies and commercializes products where possible in order to support and sustain further research and development

Overcoming Disability
Brian R. Ward
This book emphasizes the positive steps that can be taken to look after our bodies

Positioning and Play Techniques for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Mrs. Mary Howard, M.C.S.P
This booklet provides reference for parents to the many positions and movements used at the centre of treatment for children with Cerebral Palsy

Taking Charge: Teenagers Talk about Life and Physical Disabilities
Kay H. Kriegsman P.h.D
This book is based on teenagers thoughts in the following areas: communication, independence, relationships, dating, sexuality and family life

Teaching Motor Skills to Children with Cerebral Palsy
Sieglinde Martin
Through daily intervention children with cerebral palsy can reach their motor potential and be more independent.

The Current
A magazine for people with Spina Bifida.

The Gym Day Winner
Grace Maccarone
This is a hello reader - level one that has a child in a wheelchair as one of its characters

The Road to Accessibility
National Transportation Agency of Canada
An inquiry into Canadian Motor Coach Services

Today's Kids
A magazine for families with short articles on living with a disability and new products available.

What to do about your brain injured child
Glenn Doman
An older book that chronicles the various approaches used in treating children and adults with a brain injury and how the author developed his sometimes controversial method of retraining the brain.

Zoom
Robert Munsch
A children's book about Lauretta who wants her new wheelchair to go very, very fast!!

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Sensory Disorders

Building Bridges through Sensory Integration
Ellen Yack, Paula Aquilla, Shirley Sutton
An excellent resource book that clearly explains sensory systems and sensory integration, how to identify problems and practical solutions.

Is it Sensory or Is it Behaviour?
Carolyn Murray-Slutsky and Betty Paris
Behaviours result from multitude of causes. This book is an excellent resource in helping unravel the puzzle of behaviour and enable to react and deal with each situation in the best way possible.

Parenting a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder
Susan Bloomberg Christopher Auger
This book covers signs and symptoms, strategies etc. The uniqueness of this book is that it encourages there to be a whole-family plan in caring for a child with SPD.

Raising Your Spirited Child
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
The 'difficult' or 'strong-willed' child possesses traits we find difficult in children and those same traits we can value in adults. In this book you will identify your and your child's temperament and learn to see them both in positive rather than negative ways.

Sensational Kids
Lucy Jane Miller
This book looks at the signs and symptoms of Sensory Processing Disorder using vivid stories and strategies to cope with it and how to advocate for your child.

Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration
Koomar, Kranowitz, Szuklut
A small but great book filled with check lists and other tools that are invaluable for those with sensory challenges.

The Everything Parent's Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder
T Mauro
This book gives an in-depth definition of Sensory Integration Disorder and explains its effects. It highlights therapy treatments, and gives advice on how to parent your child with Sensory Integration Disorder

The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Integration Dysfunction
Carol Stock Kranowitz
This book features more than 100 playful activities that are sensory -motor, appropriate, fun and easy (SAFE) to help develop and organize a child's brain and body.

The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction
Carol Stock Kranowitz
This book will bring both hope and practical help to parents who wonder why their kid doesn't fit in.

Too Loud Too Bright Too Fast Too Tight: What to do if you are sensory defensive in a over stimulating world
Sharon Heller, Ph.D.
This book represents a breakthrough in understanding and describing sensory defensiveness.

Understanding Sensory Dysfunction
Polly Godwin Emmons & Liz McKendry Anderson
This book offers a wide range of practical and empowering strategies to assist children with sensory dysfunction as well as explaining the symptoms, causes and behaviours associated with this impairment.

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Social Skills

Its So Much Work to be Your Friend
Richard Lavoie
This book looks at the learning disabled child and the need for social success. It gives insight and practical advice to help parents and educators.

Learning Language and Loving It
Elaine Weitzman & Janice Greenberg
A guide to promoting children's social, language, and literacy development in early childhood settings

More Than Words
Fern Sussman
Helping parents promote communication and social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. A step-by-step guide that is easy to use and has practical ideas.

Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 1-3
Ruth Weltmann Begun, Editor: The Society for the Prevention of Violence
This book is a practical curriculum using real-life situations designed to help teachers and specialists build children's self-esteem, self-control, respect for the rights of other people, and a sense of responsibility for their actions. Each activity includes a descriptive title, a specific behavioral objective, and an eight-step lesson plan providing everything needed for a balanced learning experience.

Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 4-6
Ruth Weltmann Begun, Editor: The Society for the Prevention of Violence
This is an accessible and ready-to-use curriculum, based on real-life situations for you to use to build children’s self-esteem, self-control, respect for the rights of others, and a sense of responsibility for one’s own actions. Each activity includes a descriptive title, a specific behavioral objective, and an eight-step lesson plan providing everything needed for a balanced learning experience.

Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 7-12
Ruth Weltmann Begun, Editor
This book is part of the “Social Skills Curriculum Activities Library,” a practical series to help classroom teachers and others teach behavioral skills of all abilities, preschool through Grade 12.

The Hidden Curriculum
Myles, Trautman, Schelvan
This book offers practical solutions for understanding unstated rules in social situations.

Visual Strategies for Improving Communication
Linda Hodgdon
Contains numerous strategies to enhance communication interactions. Full of examples and illustrations.

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Tourette's Syndrome

Children with Tourette Syndrome: A parent's guide
Tracy Hearle
This book offers concrete information and compassionate advice for dealing with what is perhaps one of the most misunderstood and misdiagnosed neurological disorders.

Front of the Class
Brad Cohen
This is the story of a young man who though he struggles with his tourettes he has gone on to be a teacher - the teacher he never had. An amazing story of having a positive attitude.

Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tourette Syndrome
Ruth Dowling Bruun,MD & Donald J. Cohen, M.D
This book represents the vision and concern of some very caring and dedicated physicians within the Tourette community. Some areas include definitions relevant to Tourette syndrome and treatment.

Tourette Syndrome: The Facts
Mary M. Robertson & Simon Baron-Cohen
Psychologists who have been researching Tourette syndrome for many years explain the causes of the syndrome, how it is diagnosed and the way it can be treated wrote this book.

Understanding Tourette Syndrome
Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada
This handbook is intended as a resource for families. The information is designed to help one understand to complexities of Tourette Syndrome.

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Transitions

Guiding Your Children with Special Needs through the Transition from School to Adult Life
Mary Korpi
This book is broken down into two parts to help families prepare for the transition to adult life. Part 1 deals with adapting everyday routines so that the teenager can foster the vital life skills needed in adulthood. In Part 2 the book focuses on a range of programs that are available in the USA for adults, so not as helpful but still gives some thinking points for planning.

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Visual Disabilities

A Resource Guide for Parents and Educators of Blind Children
Doris M. Willoughby
This book gives both a general philosophy and practical suggestions applicable from infancy through high school.

Insights from the Blind: Comparative studies for blind and sighted infants
Selma Fraiberg
This book is about blind children and their special needs.

Parenting Preschoolers: Suggestions for raising young blind and visually impaired children
Kay Alicyn Ferrell
This book is filled with what , where, when, and how questions and answers about the things you need to know about a child with these special needs.

Self-esteem and adjusting with Blindness
Dean W. Tuttle Ph.D
This book attempts to make a significant contribution to the understanding of blindness.

Some Kids are Blind
Lola Schaefer
A great resource for schools and parents to use to introduce differences to children. An early reader format. This book talks about children who are blind.

Some People Can't See
Roy Sallows
Part of the Jordan and Me series

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